What is, is… until it isn’t? Call it trickery, a lie, fake news. Deny all you want. Believing humans are smarter than Mother Nature; able to defeat Father Time; that humans will solve any crisis. The lies we tell. Yes, I am a glass-half-empty person. Still, with grandchildren, I wonder what their destiny will be. Did you observe Earth Overshoot Day? The day humanity’s demand for ecological resources exceeds the resources the earth can regenerate within that year. On July 24, 2025, we were...

Favorite, hum, let’s start with least favorite. English with the parts of speech, diagraming sentences, reading poetry, and writing. That’s right, folks, hated to write. Why? Because teachers returned every paper covered in red ink. Often at the bottom of the page in larger than necessary print is the word, Redo. Now, before I continue, I need to note that I attended two high schools, two years in New York and two years in Arizona. In New York, they still considered ninth grade junior high...

While attending the University of Arizona, taking a Western Civilization class (1968), the professor confidently stated that historically civilizations have a lifespan, on average, two-hundred and fifty years, give or take. I thought that was ridicules. The United States would last like the Roman Empire, two thousand years or more. The instructor emphasized these countries did not collapse from any outside enemy, rather disintegrated (degenerated) from within. The United States is now 246...